Classic paintings

Compilation of Classics in the Flourishing Age, a long-term exhibition at the National Museum of China, continues to draw a large audience. It shows printed samples and digital images of the works featured in A Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings, an ambitious project of cataloging and publishing, which took some 17 years to complete. The project includes 60 albums that catalog more than 12,400 classic paintings, made primarily on paper, silk or linen, which are in the collections of 263 museums, galleries and other cultural institutions at home and abroad. Visitors to the exhibition can embark on a time travel looking at some of the greatest Chinese art in history. For example, Zanhua Shinyu Tu (Court Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers), an animated work by Tang Dynasty (618-907) painter Zhou Fang in the collection of the Liaoning Provincial Museum; and Fuchun Shanju Tu (Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains), a legendary piece by Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) artist Huang Gongwang and torn into two pieces, which are now respectively in Zhejiang Provincial Museum and the Palace Museum in Taipei.

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